Emma Cocker is a writer-artist based in Sheffield and Associate Professor in Fine Art at Nottingham Trent University. Operating under the title Not Yet There, Cocker's research enquiry focuses on the process of artistic endeavour, alongside models of (art) practice and subjectivity that resist the pressure of a single, stable position by remaining wilfully unresolved. Her mode of working unfolds restlessly along the threshold between writing/art, including experimental, performative and collaborative approaches to producing texts parallel to and as art practice. Cocker's recent writing has been published in Failure, 2010; Stillness in a Mobile World, 2010; Drawing a Hypothesis: Figures of Thought, 2011; Hyperdrawing: Beyond the Lines of Contemporary Art, 2012; Reading/Feeling (Affect), 2013; On Not Knowing: How Artists Think, 2013; Choreo-graphic Figures: Deviations from the Line, 2017; The Creative Critic: Writing as/about Practice, and as a solo collection entitled The Yes of the No, 2016.

This
Spring, the artistic research project Choreo-graphic Figures:
Deviations from the Line by artist-performer Nikolaus Gansterer,
choreographer-dancer Mariella Greil and writer-artist Emma Cocker stage an
intensive residency laboratory in collaboration with TanzQuartier Wien. In
dialogue with a team of international critical interlocutors including Alex
Arteaga, Lilia Mestre, Werner Moebius, Jörg Piringer, Christine de Smedt and
other guests, this research residencyfocuses on gesturing
with and towards the experience of vitality within the process of live
exploration, putting epistemologies, relational processes and the potentials of
embodiment through diagrammatic practice under scrutiny.The Spring Lab will be open for the
public on 11th March, 2016. All are cordially invited to join on 11th March,
2016, 17:00 - 20:00 for the Spring Lab Opening at the residency laboratory.

Admission
free/ Please make a reservation (Max. 20 participants). More about this residency can be found here.

I have been invited to give a presentation as part of the Tuesday talks series at the Whitworth, Manchester. Tuesday Talks invites leading artists, thinkers and curators to explore
the driving forces, influences and sources of inspiration within contemporary
art. The Tuesday Talks series are a collaboration between the Whitworth and
Manchester Metropolitan University.